The French Revolution (1789- 1799) saw years of violence after the overthrow of France's ruling aristocracy led to the establishment of a republic. Abolitionists were widely viewed as being as ...

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Did she say it, or was it a remark as she climbed the guillotine? She did not exceed forty years of age. Her remark is what made the imaginations of writers depict that famous sentence that became the ...

The French Revolution (1789–1799) This revolution overthrew the French monarchy, established a republic, and led to radical social and political changes. It inspired the rise of modern ...

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all of Europe into ... In 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte, who had seized power in France in 1799, sought to restore slavery to the West Indies through ...

This module introduces students to the major events of the French Revolution (1789-1799) as perceived and recorded by a diverse range of writers, artists and thinkers at the time. It examines how the ...

By 1789 France was broke ... ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system ...